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Innovation

Why most innovation efforts fail

With Rotterdam’s strong dependencies on industrial and infrastructural business innovation has never been more important to companies as it is now. The recession is creating new needs and new forms of value are needed to fulfil them.
Yet there remains a yawning gulf between business leaders’ rhetoric on innovation and the reality [...]

Necessity is the mother of invention

History reminds us that at every moment of economic upheaval and transformation, this nation has responded with bold action and big ideas.” As President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 24, he took a moment to look back, pointing to the innovations that have arisen from times of difficulty: the [...]

About the Green

We are in uncertain times. The bubble that we have happily lived in for the last number of years has burst and the air is slowly dissipating. Rather than complain, it is best to see this time as one of opportunity and business. Rotterdam’s spirit of rolling up the shirt sleeves and working hard needs [...]